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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.
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